It looks like it is the last day, together with Inês, I am closing the 15 days celebrating the Finn magazine Ottobre designs anniversary. Are you a bit lost? I'll enlight you. 15 portuguese friends and bloggers, went really out of our minds when we realised the magazine was selling in our country too. Marta had the idea and we just followed... the 15 years of Ottobre were just the perfect excuse to finally have this tour. It started October 15th, and of course, with 15 bloggers as I mentioned above. You can see all the posts from previous days by clicking the links above.

When I thougth about this tour, I didn't imagine it would be so successful, neither did I image that Ottobre itself would sponser us, but things went that way. Since I thought it'd be a smaller thing at first, I didn't care much for what to do, I went through the 3 edition I had and chose to make a pajama for my boy, because it's not warm but not too cold yet, and he didn't have many for this season

The pattern was the Lullaby Bird, number 1 (86cm size) from the 6/2014 edition, which was also the first one I got (thank you Rita!). It looks good on my boy's body but it's too long for legs and arms, there's a lot of fabric left. Which is ok anyway, it lasts longer. I used a cheap fabric that I had in my stash for a while, it's a thin knit but I can tell which. The bias tape was homemade and I used scraps from a previous refashion to make it.

The great thing about being in the last day of the tour, in this case, was being able to see all the great things my friends were sharing. And of course, I felt a little ashamed of what I had to post for the tour. I was super happy that I still had time to make something better though, so I could at least get closer to their quality (hehe).

Ainda assim não fiz grandes planos, felizmente os meus filhos estão com muita roupa para a próxima estação, precisam apenas de uma ou outra peça, e foi a pensar nisso que cosi umas calças de treino para ela. Obviamente reciclei peças que já estavam na pilha para esse propósito (ou não seria eu!!). Uma t-shirt minha e uma do pai (que já tinha mostrado no podcast, para quem não viu, fica aqui), e ainda mais restos de punhos e cós que tinha tirado de uns casacos há tempos atrás.Even though, I didn't make any huge plans, fortunately my kids have plenty enough clothes for the next season, they only need one or two pieces, and it wasa thinking of this that I went for some joggers for her. Obviously I refashioned pieces that were in the pile already (or it wouldn't be be!!). I used a t-shirt from me, and one from dad, and a few leftovers from rib knit I had saved froma few hoodies in the past.

I used pattern number 26, Hop and Jump from the 1/2015 edition. My daughter fits a 92cm according to Ottobre's measurement charts, but I went with the middle size between that and her actual height, so I used the 98cm. After seeing it on her, I thought I should have adjusted instead, and add the 104cm lenght to it. I used my shirt's front for the front and waist of the joggers, and I used dad's shirt for the back and pockets. In the waist band and leg bands I used the rib knit I recycled. The cord was in my stash too.

I dusted my overlock, and I was able to thread it (4) completely, but the it just kept breaking everytime I tried to use it, and since it was taking me a lot of time (which I didn't have), I just gave up and used my regular sewing machine instead. Since it doesn't have a lot of decorative stitches I just went with what I had trying to get creative, in the waistline and pockets. I sewed it differently from the instructions in the leg bands but all the rest I did according to those. Ottobre's instructions are not for the newbies for sure, they can scare you out with unknow terminology (it gets even harder when you are using the spanish edition which is the one I find over here, even for a spanish fluent person as myself, sometimes I just go by intuition).

When I thought about the photos for this post, I wanted something simple, that coul go with the pants but were not too heavy. I considered making a black shirt for her, but the look was dark enough, even for my own taste, I like to see kids wearing black, after all it's just a color. I like to see kids with a gorwn up look, though comfortable too - and that is a major thing about Ottobre's patterns, they are thought in order to have kids being, well, kids, jumping and playing around comfortably. Then I thought about making a white shirt, buy it came to my mind that I had bought a cheap t-shirt a while ago for another project, but had never been used after all. I grabbed that one, and upcycled it by adding a leopard paw print to match the pants and called it a day. Soon I will blog about that said shirt, with a quick tutorial on how to do the applique.

one gift card of 30 euros to Maças d'Amor fabric shop (where you can find nani IRO, Cotton and Steel, Dashwood Studio, Soft Cactus prints and many more), brought to you by all the Portuguese bloggers participating on this tour. :)

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Magda, I have tried to repurpose some old clothes, but you my friend really have a fairy´s hand to it! Those pants are absolutely perfect! Love the whole outfit, so cool (and that beanie!) And your precious boy is sure to sleep with angels with that pajama! <3 A fechar a série com chave d´ouro! <3

owww obrigado Andreia. <3 ah, we bought the beanie in a men's section a few months ago. She loved it and wanted it so bad I just couldn't say no (I love mustard, you know!). I gotta make more of these pajamas, with a heavier knit this time.